Nota de prensa de la NASA: «NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe today announced the members of the Space Shuttle Mishap Interagency Investigation Board, which will provide an independent review of the events and activities that led up to the tragic loss of the seven astronauts Saturday on board the Space Shuttle Columbia».

DaveNet: «Space travel is more important than the seven people who died and the billions of dollars that were lost».

CNN: «Investigators looking for the cause of the space shuttle Columbia disaster were expected to arrive Sunday at Lockheed Martin's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, where the external fuel tanks for the shuttles are built».

Space.com: «NASA is extremely unlikely to build a new space shuttle to replace Columbia, according to experts, leaving the space agency with the three remaining orbiters as its entire fleet for the foreseeable future. The next generation of reusable space vehicles is at least 10 to 15 years off, said Donald H. Emero, who served as the shuttle's chief engineer from 1989 to 1993. »